suicide tourism
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Travel for the purpose of committing suicide, as for example to a country where assisted suicide is legal.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "‘In Venice they have suicide tourism,’ my father had once said. ‘People who want to commit suicide make a special trip to Venice and then at five o'clock in the morning they put a bullet through their heads on the Piazza San Marco.’"
- "The Swiss researchers write that “the six right-to-die organizations assist in approximately 600 cases of suicide per year; some 150 to 200 of which are suicide tourists,” or people coming to Switzerland seeking aid-in-dying. The study looks at the data on suicide tourism in the greater Zurich area between 2008 and 2012."